It's fungi season and foodies are learning how much fun it is to forage for them.

In NSW’s Southern Highlands bookings are being taken for two tours. The first is a Truffle Hunt at Rosewood Trufferie. Together with the amazing truffle hounds and their handlers, guests will be shown how and where the black truffles are found round the oak and hazelnut trees on this 33 acre property. They will then have the opportunity to watch them being weighed and washed before sitting down to a truffle lunch with recipes devised by one of Sydney’s top chefs. The tours will be conducted by truffle pioneer Duncan Garvey from Perigord Truffles of Tasmania. And for those who can’t make it to the hunt, truffles may be purchased from Perigord Truffles, details on their website.

The other experience is a tour of the 650 metre long disused railway tunnel in Mittagong where the exotic Li-Sun Exotic Mushrooms are growing. The range of mushrooms include Enoki, Shiitake, Chestnut, Shinejii, Woodear – ideal in soups, King Brown & Oyster.

Truffle Hunting Tours are held each Sunday until the season finishes about late August. The first Mushroom Tunnel Tours will be held on Sunday 3 October at 10.30am and 2 pm. More tours will be held in early January and into 2011.

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